How to Find Information in Facebook
Facebook users very often have a need to find some photo of video files. For instance, how to find images of the Kyiv center...
How to Find Information about a Website and Its Owner
On September 24, the Kharkov.News agency falsely reported that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, being drunk, had been allegedly removed from a Kyiv-Moscow flight. StopFake...
How to Find the Source of a Photo
When searching for information to confirm or refute an image’s authenticity, you should take into account three things: the date, place, and source of...
Tips to Make a Google Search Easier
Today we are going to look among search solutions offered to us by Google. Fortunately, basic search operators spare us from great investigative efforts.
The...
Searching the Earth: Essential geolocation tools for verification
By Eliot Higgins from Bellingcat, for The First Draft
As verification and open source investigation techniques and methodologies have developed over the last few years,...
How to Avoid Spending Eternity on a Twitter Search
Let’s begin by asking, could you find original witness tweets on Twitter about the crash of Malaysia Airlines MH17 in Ukraine?
It is not enough...
The new smartphone application as a tool of justice
Let’s begin with this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ySF8ojE6n4
This footage became a piece of key evidence in the trial against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. He was found guilty by...
How to Search Photos on Social Networks
To begin, let’s solve a puzzle. On what street in Yalta is the wall painted with the Ukrainian flag? The picture was posted recently....
Metadata: Invisible information about a photo
Let’s begin with a small question – where exactly was this photo taken?
One of the most common ways to identify the location of a...
Five New Programs to Verify the Authenticity of Information on the Internet
Here are five new programs and applications that can help users to check the authenticity of information content on the internet.
Trooclick
The Trooclick plug-in...